School-based approaches to addressing aggression in the early grades have focused on explicit curriculum addressing social and emotional processes. The current study reviews research on the distinct modes of aggression, the status of current research on social and emotional processing relevant to problems of aggression amongst young children, as…

This chapter is part of a book that recounts the year's work at the Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) at Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi. Rather than an "elitist" laboratory school for the children of university faculty, the ECDC is a collaboration between the Corpus Christi Independent School District and the…

In stimulating children to discuss their feelings through language arts activities, puppets and poetry were utilized. (RK)

This study related selected principles of rhetorical analysis to teaching as it actually occurs in the classroom. The Aristotelian definition of rhetoric as the means of discovering all the available means of persuasion is central to teaching, in that the entire endeavor of education rests upon the premise that children, as they grow, need and…

Suggests that it is time to cease polluting our human resources by allowing television to take over the rearing of our young. Instead the stimulation of reading children's literature is recommended and uses the concepts developed in a number of children's books to make his point. (Author/RK)

The demand for knowledge of the educational issues related to services to the young child is increasing. Attempts to identify and describe four areas in which knowledge is available to the early childhood educator and lists some sources of further information on the subject. (Author/RK)

The author presents a series of programmed exercises designed to help teachers develop the skills necessary to incorporate Piaget's concepts of child intellectual development into effective classroom use. (MB)

Author feels that teachers should start delegating responsibilities early to help students develop good judgement. (GB)

Pays tribute to educator Louis E. Raths by reviewing highlights of his life, philosophy, and works. (DS)

Discusses the preperation necessary for children's poetic expression of creativity, the teachers role and the process by which the children can be aided to write poetry. (RB)

Tabulates developmental stage characteristics, suggested science activities, and instructional methods for children 5-14, in two-year age group intervals. (AL)

Excerpted from L'Osservatore Romano" of September 18, 1970. (DS)

Uses several anecdotal accounts to illustrate principles of linguistic and cognitive development, and then applies these principles to classroom strategies for teaching reading. (DD)